The JOY Broadcast

This week I am letting you in on a very real, very honest moment. I went to the doctors for an HRT check this week and the scales told me I had put on three kilos. Once upon a time, that would have sent me into a flat spin. This time? I sat with it, got curious, and decided it was exactly what I wanted to talk about on the podcast.
My health,  your health does not have to be complicated. And the women I work with, the ones running businesses and homes and families and ageing parents, do not need another twelve step protocol. They need it simple. They need it doable. They need it to fit into a life that is already full.
So I am walking you through my Three E's. The framework I come back to again and again, for health now and longevity long term.
Eat for fuel. What you are actually doing in your day decides what you need on your plate. Whole foods, good protein, plenty of water. Not fancy. Not complicated. Just real.
Exercise. Walk daily. Move daily. Add weight bearing work for your bones, your strength, your future self. It does not have to be hours in a gym or running a marathon (unless that brings you joy!)
Easy does it. The hardest one for me. Stillness, sleep, joy moments, the breath work, the meditation, the protected pockets of quiet to ensure your cortisol drops, your digestion turns back on, and your brain does its night time clearing out, which I learned through my research into Alzheimer's is so much more important than most of us realise.
This episode is part personal share, part practical framework, part gentle nudge to put yourself back near the top of your own list.
Mentioned in this episode
 This week's Substack: The 'F-Ugly' Girl in the Mirror → [read it here]
Lean for Life, the four week programme I co-host with nutritionist Tiffany Rowlands, inside the Rose Library with access through the Joy Rebellion
Ready to go deeper & lock in your joy?
If this episode landed and you want accountability, community and the full library of work I have built on this over the last decade, here are the two best ways in.
🌹 The Joy Rebellion — my year long membership and home of the Rose Library, where you get every course and programme I have made, including Lean for Life, Wired and Tired, and Rebel HD. We meet every Monday to align as a collective and set our intentions across every area of life. £222 for the year, or £22 a month. → [Join the Joy Rebellion Here]
🌹 Brilliance — my private 1:1 mentorship. This is where we work deeply on how you feel in your body, so you can outperform in the boardroom and feel good in the bedroom. By application here. 

If this episode helped, the kindest thing you can do is share it with a woman who needs the reminder, and leave a review wherever you listen. It helps so much.
With love, joy and peace always, Ali xo 🌹
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Want to follow along with your own chart?
This episode is about cracking your confidence code with joy — and along the way I talk about your fears, how you're wired, and how you lead yourself.
If you'd like to know your own Human Design before you press play, get your free chart here → [FREE HUMAN DESIGN CHART LINK]
You'll need your date, time, and place of birth. No chart to hand? No problem — listen anyway. Everything in this episode applies to you, whether you know your design or not.
About this episode
This week's episode is my keynote speach recorded as a dress rehearsal before I delivered it live at Grantley Hall, for the brilliant charity SmartWorks, who help women back into the workplace after a loss of confidence.
Ten years ago, I had no confidence at all. I'd separated from James, lost my mum, left my corporate career, and I had two small boys and no idea who I was without all the things that used to define me. No title. No team. No map. No salary. No mum to call.
I had to build my confidence back from nothing.
This episode is the recipe I found. The five ingredients — and the one thing that binds them all together.
In this episode I walk you through my five ingredients of confidence: inner strength, self-leadership, courage, truth, and power and the one binding ingredient: JOY. Just On You.
My favourite line of the whole episode: joy isn't the reward for getting confident. Joy is the practice that makes confidence inevitable.
Mentioned in this episode
This week on Substack — Be the Peach, Not the Egg. The values work behind ingredient one and ingredient four. Why your core values are your morning activators, your anchors in a storm, and your antidote to poison arrows. → [SUBSTACK LINK]
 SmartWorks — the charity behind the Grantley Hall event, helping women across the country back into the workplace and into their confidence. Please go and find out about them.  The event I went to was hosted by the Leeds Office, but it is a nationwide charity. → [SMARTWORKS LINK]
Work with me
Joy in HD™ — if this episode made you curious about how you're actually wired, this is where you go deeper. My Human Design mastercourse and mastermind, where you learn to use your chart across every part of your life. Body. Boardroom. Bedroom. Pull your free chart first (link at the top), then come and learn what it actually means. → [JOY IN HD LINK]
Brilliance — my private one-to-one mentorship, by application. Limited spaces. → [BRILLIANCE LINK]
The Joy Rebellion — my year-long community for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from. → [JOY REBELLION LINK]
Stay connected
Sign up to The Joy Brief — my weekly newsletter — and never miss an episode, an offer, or an invitation saved just for my list. → [JOY BRIEF LINK]
Find me on Instagram — @alimortimer_thejoycoach
If this episode lands for you, please share it. With a woman in your life. In a story on Instagram. With a friend who's been telling herself she has no confidence.
That is how the message moves.
With joy, always, Ali xo 🌹

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This week's episode talks about your Fear Gates in Human Design, the specific places fear shows up in your body, your mind, and your decisions, based on your unique design.
If you'd like to know yours before you press play, get your free Human Design chart here → FREE HUMAN DESIGN CHART LINK
You'll need your date, time, and place of birth.
If you don't have it to hand, no problem at all, listen anyway. Everything in this episode applies to you, whether you know your design or not.

About this episode
I have a real bee in my bonnet about the phrase "imposter syndrome."
I want it banished.
In 1978, two psychologists coined a term that gave generations of brilliant, boundary-pushing, ambitious women the worst possible name for the voice inside them. They called her an imposter. They told us to distrust her. Silence her. Override her.
She isn't an imposter.
She is fear. And fear, when you understand her, is one of the most important voices in the room.
In this episode I walk you through:
– Why "imposter syndrome" is the most dangerous label we've handed to high-achieving women
– The only two fears you were actually born with (and what that means for every other fear running your life)
– Your Fear Gates in Human Design — what they are, where they live, and why knowing yours changes everything
– How to invite your fear friends in for coffee instead of trying to kick them out
– Why fear is evidence that what you're doing actually matters
If you've ever called yourself an imposter, or had that voice tell you you're not enough, not ready, not allowed, please listen to this one. And then share it with a woman who needs to hear it.

Mentioned in this episode
📖 This week on Substack — Dear Boo, you were right. Vulnerability is the bloody stone. A letter to my 40-year-old self about the wheel I drew on a scrap of paper in 2016 and how it became the whole thesis of my life's work. → SUBSTACK LINK
🌹 Mindfulness Mondays — my new paid Substack series. 100 mindfulness practices to bring you peace, calm in the chaos, and a quiet mind in a busy life. Five practices a week, every Monday morning, for twenty weeks. Sign up before Sunday night and the full meditation album is yours, completely free. → MINDFULNESS MONDAYS LINK

Stay connected
 Sign up to The Joy Brief — my weekly newsletter — and never miss an episode, an offer, or an invitation saved just for my list. → JOY BRIEF LINK
Find me on Instagram — @alimortimer_thejoycoach

If this episode lands for you, please share it. With a woman in your life. In a story on Instagram. With a friend who's been calling herself an imposter for too long.
That is how the message moves.
With joy, always, Ali xo 🌹
https://www.alimortimer.com/

After listening to this episode and you know you want to do this work properly? The I Know Me, I Love Me Life Lab is the workshop that walks you through finding your core values, so you can love yourself, and the woman you are, by actually living them.
It's free in Monday 11th May 2026 edition of The Joy Brief, or it lives permanently inside The Joy Rebellion membership. Links at the bottom. ↓

About this episode
This might be one of the most important conversations Ali has ever brought to The Joy Broadcast. It's the work she returns to with every Brilliance client. It's the work she returns to with herself, every morning, before her feet hit the floor.
Your values.
Not the easy answer of "integrity and honesty". The real ones. The ones you can rattle off when someone asks who you are. The ones that become your path, your conviction, your courage, your antidote.
Because as Ali says: when you know who you are, you can stand tall when the poison arrows come. You don't need to zip yourself up in an energetic sleeping bag. You don't need to be the eggshell, terrified of cracking. You get to be the peach, soft on the outside, with a kernel so strong the world can't break it.

What's inside this episode
A genuine, behind-the-scenes share, Ali reading from her own journal, walking you through:
Why values matter more than your job title, your achievements, or your CV
The peach vs. the egg: how values become inner strength rather than outer armour
Why values are the better, freer alternative to boundaries
How values become the antidote when someone tries to define you, attack you, or shrink you
The exercise: blank sheet, brain dump, cluster, distil. Finding the one word that carries it all
Ali's own six core values and what each one really means to her: Genuine, Generosity, Gratitude, Grit, Growth, Grace
Why she added Grace as a sixth value at the end of 2024: softening, surrender, dignified strength
How to use your values as a lens on your big goals. The journal exercise Ali did when she declared she wanted to make a lot of money, have a lot of fun, and help a lot of people, and had to clean up every place that desire collided with who she is

A line worth holding onto
"My values are the path I walk every day. I don't need boundaries, because I know who I am, and I know the path I'm walking."

Your invitation
If something in this stirred you, triggered you, activated you, that's the friction worth listening to. Go and do the work. Get the blank sheet. Write everything down. Cluster. Distil. Define. And then live them.

Links & next steps
🌿 The Joy Brief, Monday 11th May edition (free I Know Me, I Love Me Life Lab): Subscribe for weekly exclusive JOY Brief offers.
✨ The Joy Rebellion, where the Life Labs live, plus the full library, the community, and Ali in your week: Join the Joy Rebellion. £22/month or £222/year
💛 Brilliance, Ali's six-month private mentorship for women with big dreams, big goals, and the readiness to do this work properly. Apply here.
🎙️ Subscribe to The Joy Broadcast so you don't miss next week's episode.
📲 Come and find Ali on Instagram and continue the conversation. She'd love to hear what came up for you.
The answer is always joy. Love always, Ali x
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Welcome back after the Easter break. This week I'm sharing two tools I've been using personally and walking my Brilliance clients through over recent weeks — because when I find myself saying the same thing on repeat in private sessions, I know it's time to broadcast it.
The first is what I've started calling the shit and the diamonds — the recognition that life rarely hands you triumph in every area at once. Your career might be hitting milestones while your home life is heavy. Your relationship might be thriving while work is falling apart. The trick isn't to pretend the hard stuff isn't there. It's to stop letting it smother the good stuff. The woman in you holds the emotional work. The CEO in you leads the diamonds. Two hands. Don't clap them together.
The second tool is one I've been teaching for years and had a fresh personal breakthrough with this week — the Russian Doll effect. I don't believe in finding yourself or becoming her. I believe every version of you you've ever been is still valid, still wise, still part of who you are now. But sometimes, after a betrayal or a trauma, we leave a doll behind. We abandon a version of ourselves we decided wasn't safe to be anymore. This week I went back for two of mine, the trusting woman I left in 2016, and the financially independent corporate professional I left in 2014, and the relief of putting them back inside me is what this episode is really about.
This is deeper work than usual. Take it as an invitation.

Favourite Quote:
"It's like you've got a pile of shit in one hand and a bag of diamonds in the other. Don't clap your hands together.""I don't believe in finding yourself. I believe in remembering yourself.""Every version of you is valid."
Work with me
The Joy Rebellion: my membership where we lock in your joy every single week. Coaching, mentoring, celebration, community. Doors are always open. Joy Rebellion link 
Brilliance: private one-to-one mentorship for when you're navigating something genuinely shitty and need deeper support. Book a conversation and we'll see where you fit. Brilliance link
The Joy Brief: the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from - the quick links & weekly exclusive offers Joy Brief link

If this episode landed
Send it to a woman who's currently holding diamonds in one hand and something much heavier in the other. And if you have a Russian Doll story, a version of yourself you're ready to welcome back, I'd love to hear it. My DMs and inbox are always open.
Subscribe so you don't miss next week. And if you've got a moment, a rating or review helps more women find The Joy Broadcast.
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